Gotland's monetary autonomy during Christian I's reign was perpetually contested. The island had passed to Denmark by treaty in 1457 after Christian pledged it as collateral to Sweden — a debt never repaid — leaving its civic coinage in a prolonged administrative limbo that makes precise attribution of individual Visby issues genuinely difficult. Hauberg 91 distinguishes this type by the absence of the flag on the walking ram, a small but diagnostically critical difference from related varieties struck across the same period.
Gotland's monetary autonomy during Christian I's reign was perpetually contested. The island had passed to Denmark by treaty in 1457 after Christian pledged it as collateral to Sweden — a debt never repaid — leaving its civic coinage in a prolonged administrative limbo that makes precise attribution of individual Visby issues genuinely difficult. Hauberg 91 distinguishes this type by the absence of the flag on the walking ram, a small but diagnostically critical difference from related varieties struck across the same period.